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LEWIS CARROLL. 




On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the 
trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment-scroU 
and read as follows ; — 



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THE 

LEWIS CARROLL 
BIRTHDAY BOOK 



SELECTED BY . 

CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK 



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NEW YORK 

Si. Witisi0tl& 6i Company 





Copyright, 1905, hy 
A. Wessels & Company 




LIBRARY Of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

NOV 29 1905 

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april — Musk 
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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty 
said in rather a scornful tone, "it means ]ust 
what I choose it to mean, — neither more 
nor less." 

"The question is," said Alice, "whether 
you can make words mean so many different 
things." 

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, 
"which is to be master, — that's all." 



"You are old, Father William," the young man 
said, 

" And your hair has become very white ; 
And yet you incessantly stand on your head, — 

Do you think, at your age, it is right? " 



*'In my youth," Father William replied to his 
son, 

"I feared it might injure the brain; 
But now I am perfectly sure I have none, 

Why, I do it again and again." 






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"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman 
cried, 

As he landed his crew with care, 
Supporting each man on the top of the tide 

By a finger entwined in his hair. 



"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. 

"I only wish I had such eyes," the King 
remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to 
see nobody. And at that distance, too ! 
Why, it's as much as / can do to see real 
people, by this light." 



"I see somebody now," Alice exclaimed at 
last. "But he's coming very slowly — and 
what curious attitudes he goes into." 

"Not at all," said the King. "He's an 
Anglo-Saxon Messenger and those are Anglo- 
Saxon attitudes. His name is Haigha." 



"The other messenger's called Hatta. I 
must have two, you know, — to come and 
go. One to come, one to go." 




"I beg your pardon?" said Alice. 

"It isn't respectable to beg," said the King. 

"I only meant that I didn't understand," 
said Alice. "Why one to come and one to 
go?" 

"Don't I tell you?" the King repeated 
impatiently. "I must have two — to fetch 
and carry. One to fetch and one to carry." 



"You alarm me!" said the King, "I feel 
faint. Give me a ham sandwich." 

On which the Messenger opened a bag 
which hung around his neck and handed a 
sandwich to the King, who devoured it 
greedily. 




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"Another sandwich!" said the King. 

"There's nothing but ha}^ left now," the 
Messenger said, peeping into the bag again. 

"Hay, then," the King murmured in a 
faint whisper. 

AHce was glad to see it revived him a good 
deal. 



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"There's nothing like eating hay when 
you're faint," he remarked, as he munched 
away. 

"1 should think throwing cold water over 
you would be better," Alice suggested: "or 
some sal- volatile." 

"I didn't say there was nothing better," 
the King replied. "I said there was nothing 
like it." 



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The Bellman himself they all praised to the 
skies — 
Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! 
Such solemnity, too! One could see he was 
wise 
The moment one looked in his face! 



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He had bought a large map representing the 
sea, 
Without the least vestige of land: 
And the crew were much pleased when they 
found it to be 
A map they could all understand. 



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"Other maps are such shapes, with their 
islands and capes! 
But we've got our brave Captain to thank" 
(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought 
us the best — 
A perfect and absolute blank!" 



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This was charming, no doubt: but they 
shortly found out 

That the Captain they trusted so well 
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, 

And that was to tingle his bell. 





He was thoughtful and grave — but the 
orders he gave 
Were enough to bewilder a crew. 
When he cried, "Steer to starboard, but keep 
her head larboard! " 
What on earth was the helmsman to do? 




Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder 
sometimes : 

A thing, as the Bellman remarked, 
That frequently happens in tropical climes, 

When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked." 



But the principal failing occurred in the 

sailing, 

And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, 

Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind 

blew due East, 

That the ship would not travel due West! 



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"Your Majesty must excuse her," the Red 
Queen said to Alice, taking one of the White 
Queen's hands in her own and gently stroking 
it: "she means well, but she can't help saying 
foolish things, as a general rule." 



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"She never was really well brought up," 
the Red Queen went on, "but it's amazing 
how good-tempered she is! Pat her on the 
head and see how pleased she'll be! A little 
kindness — and putting her hair in papers — 
would do wonders with her " 



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'And now, if e'er by chance I put 

My fingers into glue. 
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot 

Into a left-hand shoe. 
Or if I drop upon my toe 

A very heavy weight, 
I weep, for it reminds me so 

Of that old man I used to know — 



January 



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Whose looks were mild, whose speech was 

slow, 
Whose hair was whiter than the snow, 
Whose face was very like a crow, 
With eyes like cinders, all aglow, 
Who seemed distracted with his woe, 



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Who rocked his body to and fro. 
And muttered mumblingly and low, 
As if his mouth were full of dough. 
Who snorted like a buffalo — 
That summer evening, long ago, 
A-sitting on a gate." 



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The Knight looked surprised. "What does 
it matter where my body happens to be?" 
he said. "My mind goes on working all the 
same. In fact, the more head downward I 
am, the more I keep inventing things." 



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"'Don't-care* and 'Care' were twin- 
brothers. 'Care* you know, killed the cat, 
and they caught 'Dont-care' by mistake, and 
hanged him instead. And so 'Care' is alive 
still." 



29 



There was one who was famed for the number 
of things 
He forgot when he entered the ship: 
His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and 
rings. 
And the clothes he had bought for the trip. 



30 



He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed. 
With his name painted clearly on each: 

But since he omitted to mention the fact, 
They were all left behind on the beach. 



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"What is an un-birthday present?" 
"A present given when it isn't your birth- 
day, of course." 

Alice considered a little. "I like birthday ^^ -. 
presents best," she said. 



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"You don't know what you're talking 
about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How 
many days are there in a year?" 

"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. 

"And how many birthdays have you?" 

"One." 

"That shows that there are three hundred 
and sixty-four days when you might get 
un-birthday presents — and only one for 
birthday presents." 



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"There's glory for you!" 

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" 
Alice said. 

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 
"Of course you don't, — till I tell you. I 
meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument 
for you! ' " 



The fat little man simpered. "Well, yes," 
he replied, "my ancestors were all famous 
for military genius." 

My Lady smiled graciously. "It often runs 
in families," she remarked, "just as a love 
for pastry does." 



' ' That's the right order. First the Meeting : 
then the Eating: then the Treating." 




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"There's no use trying," Alice said; "one 
can't believe impossible things." 

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," 
said the Queen. "When I was your age I 
always did for half an hour a day. Why, 
sometimes I've believed as many as six 
impossible things before breakfast." 




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"Flamingoes and mustard both bite," said 
the Duchess. "And the moral of that is — 
'Birds of a feather flock together."* 



"Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice re- 
marked. "Right as usual," said the Duchess. 
"What a clear way you have of putting 
things! " 



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"It's a mineral, I think," said Alice. 

"Of course it is," said the Duchess; "there's 
a large mustard mine near here. And the 
raoral of that is — ' The more there is of 
mine, the less there is of yours.'" 

"Oh, I know," exclaimed Alice, who had 
not attended to this last remark, "it's a 
vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is." 



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"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess, 
"and the moral of that is — 'Be what you 
seem to be,' or if you'd like it put more 
simply, — Never imagine yourself not to be 
otherwise than what it might appear to others 
that what you were or might have been was 
not otherwise than what you had been would 
have appeared to them to be otherwise." 



"I think I should understand that better," 
Alice said very politely, "if I had it written 
down; but I can't quite follow it as you say 
it." 

"That's nothing to what I could say if I 
chose," the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone. 



"Speak roughlj^ to your little boy, 
And beat him when he sneezes; 
He only does it to annoy. 
Because he knows it teases." 



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"He thought he saw a Rattlesnake 
That questioned him in Greek: 
He looked again and saw it was 

The Middle of Next Week. 
'The one thing I regret,' he said, 
'Is that it cannot speak!'" 



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"It's so very lonely here!" Alice said in a 
melancholy voice; and at the thought of her 
loneliness two large tears came rolling down 
her cheeks. 

"Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor 
Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Con- 
sider what a great girl you are. Consider 
what a long way you've come to-day. Con- 
sider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, 
only don't cry! " 
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"I always loves my pav-rints like anything." 
"Who are your pay-rintsf" said Bruno. 
"Them as pay rint for me, of course!" the 
Gardener replied. 



"And the old Sheep said, 'Do you know 
your ABC yet ? Have you learned A ? ' 
And the Lamb said, 'Oh, yes, Ma, I went to 
the A-iield, and I helped them to make A.' 
'Very good, my child. And have you learned 
B ? ' 'Oh, yes, Ma. I went to the B-hive and 
the B gave me soine honey ! ' 



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"'Very good, my child! And have you 
learned C?' 'Oh, yes. Ma! I went to the 
C-side and I saw the ships sailing on the C! '" 



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"Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, 
Game or any other dish? 
Who would not give all else for two p 
enny worth only of beautiful Soup? 
Pennjrw'orth only of beautiful Soup? 

Beau— ootiful Soo — oop! 

Beau— ootiful Soo— oop! 
SOO-OOP of the e— e — evening, 
Beautiful, beauti— FUL SOUP!" 



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"This is Medicine Day! We only give 
Medicine once a week. If we were to begin 
giving it other days the bottles would soon 
be empty! " 

"But if they were ill on the other days?" 
Sylvie suggested. 

"What, ill on the wrong day!" exclaimed 
the Professor, "Oh, that would never do! 
A servant would be dismissed at once who 
was ill on the wrong day!" 



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"May I put your shawl straight for you?" 
asked Alice. 

"I don't know what's the matter with it," 
the Queen said in a melancholy voice. "It's 
out of temper, I think. I've pinned it here 
and I've pinned it there, but there's no 
pleasing it." 

"It can't go straight, you know, if you pin 
it all on one side," Alice said, as she gently 
put it right for her. 



"Dear me, what a state your hair is in!" 
"The brush has got entangled in it!" the 

Queen said, with a sigh. "And I lost the 

comb yesterday." 

Alice carefully released the brush. * ' Really, 

you should have a lady's maid!" 




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"I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure," 
the Queen said. "Twopence a week and 
jam every other day." 

Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said. 
"I don't want you to hire me — and I don't 
care for jam." 



"It's very good jam, said the Queen. 

"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any 
rate." 

"You couldn't have it if you did want it," 
the Queen said. "The rule is, jam to-morrow 
and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day." 



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"It nmst come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'** 
Alice objected. 

"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam 
every other day: to-day isn't any other day, 
vou know." 



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'But I was thinking of a plan 

To dye one's whiskers green, 
And always use so large a fan 

That they could not be seen. 
So having no reply to give 

To what the old man said, 
I cried, 'Come, tell me how you live!' 

And thumped him on the head." 



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'His accents mild took up the tale: 

He said, 'I go my ways, 
And when I find a mountain-rill 

I set it in a blaze; 
And thence they make a stuff they call 

Rowlands' Macassar-Oil — 
Yet twopence-halfpenny is all 

They give me for my toil.'" 



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"There be three Badgers on a mossy stone 
Beside a dark and covered way: 

Each dreams himself a monarch on his throne. 
And so they stay and stay — 

Though their old Father languishes alone, 
They stay, and stay, and stay. 



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"There be three Herrings loitering around, 
Longing to share that mossy seat: 

Each Herring tries to sing what she has found 
That makes Life seem so sweet. 

Thus, with a grating and uncertain sound. 
They bleat, and bleat, and bleat. 



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"The Mother-Herring, on the salt sea-wave, 
Sought vainh^^ for her absent ones: 

The Father-Badger, writhing in a cave, 
Shrieked out, 'Return, my sons! 

You shall have buns,' he shrieked, 'if you'll 
behave ; 
Yea, buns, and buns, and buns.' 



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*"I fear,' said she, 'your sons have gone 
astray ? 

My daughters left me while I slept.' 
'Yes'm,' the Badger said, 'it's as you say, ^'t\ 

They should be better kept.' 
Thus the poor parents talked the time away, 

And wept, and wept, and wept. 




She was talldng all the time, sometimes to the kiU 
ten and sometimes to herself > 



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"The Badgers did not care to talk to Fish: 
They did not dote on Herrings' songs: 

They never had experienced the dish 
To which that name belongs: 

'And, oh, to pinch their tails,' (this was their 
wish,) 
'With tongs, yea, tongs, and tongs!' 



' ' ' And are not these the Fish ? ' the Eldest 
sighed, 
•Whose Mother dwells beneath the foam?' 
'They are the Fish!' the Second one replied, 

' And they have left their home ! ' 
'Oh, wicked Fish!' the Youngest Badger 
cried, 
'To roam, yea, roam, and roam!' 



"Gently the Badgers trotted to the shore — 
The sandy shore that fringed the bay: 

Each in his mouth a living Herring bore — 
Their aged ones waxed gay: 

Clear rang their voices through the ocean's 
roar, 
' Hooray, hooray, hooray! ' " 



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The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his 
brow, 

"If only_ you'd spoken before! 
It's excessively awkward to mention it now, 

With the Snark, so to speak, at the door! 



"We should all of us grieve, as I hope you 
believe, 

If you never were met with again — 
But surely, my man, when the voyage began. 

You might have suggested it then. 




''It's excessively awkward to m.ention it 
now — 
As I think I've already remarked." 
And the man they called "Hi!" replied, with 
a sigh, 
"I informed j^ou the day we embarked. 




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' ' You may charge me with murder — or want 
of sense — 

(We are all of us weak at times) : 
But the slightest approach to a false pretense 

Was never among my crimes. 



' ' I said it in Hebrew — I said it in Dutch — 

I said it in German and Greek: 
But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) 

That English is what you speak!" 



'"Tis a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose 
face 
Had grown longer at every word: 
"But now that you've stated the whole of 
your case 
More debate would be simply absurd. 




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"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green. 
Waiting in a hot tureen! 
Who for such dainties would not stoop? 
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! 
Soo — oop of the e — e — evening, 
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!" 



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Alice was rather doubtful whether she 
ought not to He down on her face, like the 
three gardeners, but she could not remember 
ever having heard of such a rule at proces- 
sions: "And what would be the use of a 
procession," she thought, "if people all had 
to lie down on their faces, so that they couldn't 
see it?" 



Alice began asking questions. "Aren't you 
sometimes frightened at being planted out 
here, with nobody to take care of you?" 

"There's the tree in the middle," said the 
Rose. 

"But what could it do if any danger came? " 
Alice asked. 

"It could bark," said the Rose. 

"It says 'Bough-wough! ' " cried a Daisy. 




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"Half-way up that bush, you'll see a 
Rocking-horse-fly. It's made entirely of 
wood, and gets about by swinging itself from 
branch to branch." 

"What does it live on?" Alice asked, with 
great curiosity. 

"Sap and sawdust," said the Gnat. 



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"I know what you're thinking about," said 
Tweedledum; "But it isn't so, nohow." 

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledum, '•?' 
"if it was so, it might be: and if it were so, 
it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's 
logic! " 



"In Science, in fact, in most things, — it 
is usually best to begin at the beginning. In 
some things, of course, it is better to begin 
at the other end. For instance, if you wanted 
to paint a dog green, it might be best to 
begin with the tail, as it doesn't bite at that 
end." 




'The sun was shining on the sea, 
Shining with all his might. 

He did his very best to make 
The billows smooth and bright - 

And this was odd, because it was 
The middle of the night," 



"The moon was shining sulkily, 
Because she thought the sun 

Had got no business to be there 
After the day was done — 

'It's very rude of him,' she said, 
'To come and spoil the fun!'" 



"The sea was wet as wet could be, 
The sands were dry as dry, 

You could not see a clotid, because 
No cloud was in the sky; 

No birds were flying overhead — 
There were no birds to fly." 



"That's just what I complain of," said 
Humpty Dumpty. "Your face is the same 
as everybody has — the two eyes, nose in the 
middle, mouth under. It's always the same. 
Now if you had the two eyes on the same 
side of the nose, for instance, or the mouth 
at the top — that would be some help." 

"It wouldn't look nice," Alice objected. 
But Humpty Dumpty only shut his eyes and 
said, "Wait till you've tried." 

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"And while the Lion was telling him the 
story, it nibbled some of his head off, — 

"Don't say 'nibbled,'" Bruno entreated. 
"Only little things nibble, — little sharp 
things, with edges " 

"Well, then, it 'nubbled,'" said Sylvie. 



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They had not gone far before they saw the 
Mock Turtle in the distance sitting sad and 
lonely on a little ledge of rock, and as they 
came nearer Alice could hear him sighing as 
if his heart would break. She pitied him 
deeply. 



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"What is his sorrow?" she asked the Gry- 
phon, and the Gryphon answered, "It's all 
his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you 
know. Come on!" 



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So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who 
looked at them mth large eyes full of tears, 
but said nothing. 

"This here young lady," said the Gryphon, 
"she wants for to know your history, she do.*' 

"I'll tell it her," said, the Mock Turtle in 
a deep hollow tone: "Sit down both of you, 
and don't speak a word till I've finished." 



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So they sat down and nobody spoke for 
some minutes. Alice thought to herself, "I 
don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't 
begin." But she waited patiently. 

"Once," said the Mock Turtle, at last, with 
a deep sigh, "I was a real Turtle." 



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These words were followed by a very long 
silence, broken only by an occasional excla- 
mation of "Hjckrrh!" from the Gryphon and 
the constant heavy sighing of the Mock 
Turtle. 



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"When we were little," the Mock Turtle 
went on at last, more calmly, though still 
sobbing a little now and then, "we went to 
school in the sea. The master was an old 
Turtle, — we used to call him Tortoise " 

"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he 
wasn't one?" Alice asked. 

"We called him Tortoise because he taught 
us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really 
you are very dull!" 




"If a fish came to me," said the Mock 
Turtle, "and told me he was going on a 
journey, I should say, 'With what porpoise?'" 

"Don't you mean purpose?" said Alice. 

"I mean what I say," the Mock Turtle 
replied, in an offended tone. 



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They roused him with muffins — they roused 
him with ice — 
They roused him with mustard and cress — 
They roused him with jam and judicious 
advice — 
They set him conundrums to guess. 



When at length he sat up and was able to 
speak, 
His sad story he offered to tell; 
And the Bellman cried "Silence! Not even 
a shriek! " 
And excitedly tingled his bell. 







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There was silence supreme! Not a shriek, 
not a scream, 
Scarcely even a howl or a groan, 
As the man they called "Ho! " told his story 
of woe 
In an antediluvian tone. 



'My father and mother were honest, though 

poor " 

"Skip all that! " cried the Bellman in haste. 
'If it once becomes dark, there's no chance 
of a Snark — 
"We have hardly a minute to waste!" 



*'I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, 
"And proceed without further remark 

To the day when you took me aboard your 
ship 
To help you in hunting the Snark. 



"A dear tincle of mine, after whom I was 
named, 

Remarked, as he bade me farewell *' 

"Oh, skij) your dear uncle!" the Bellman 
exclaimed 
As he angrily tingled his beU. 



"He remarked to me then," said that mildest 
of men, 
"If your vSnark be a Snark, that is right: 
Fetch it home by all means, you may serve 
it with greens, 
And it's handy for striking a light. 



' ' You may seek it with thimbles — and seek 

it with care: 

You may hunt it with forks and with hope: 

You may threaten its life with a railway 

share : 

You may charm it with smiles and soap " 



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"It is this, it is this - 
that before!" 
The Bellman indignantly said, 
And the Baker replied, "Let me say it once 
more. 
It is this, it is this that I dread! 



"I engage with the Snark — every night after 
dark — 

In a dreamy, delirious fight: 
I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes, 

And I use it for striking a light: 



"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, 
In a moment, (of this I am sure,) 

I shall softly and suddenly vanish away — 
And the notion I cannot endure!" 



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The Red Queen began again. "Can you 
answer useful questions?" she asked. "How 
is bread made?" 

"I know that!" Alice cried eageriy. "You 
take some flour " 

"Where do you pick the flower? " the White 
Queen asked. "In a garden, or in the 
hedges?" 



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"Well, it isn't picked at all," Alice ex- 
plained. " It' s ground ' ' 

"How many acres of ground?" said the 
White Queen. "You mustn't leave out so 
many things." 



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"Fan her head!" the Red Queen anxiously 
interrupted. "She'll be feverish after so 
much thinking." So they set to work and 
fanned her with bunches of leaves, till she 
had to beg them to leave off, it blew her hair 
about so. 




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"Do you know Languages? What's the 
French for fiddle-de-dee?" 

"Fiddle-de-dee's not English," Alice replied 
gravely. 

"Who ever said it was?" said the Red 
Queen. 



"In our country," remarked Alice, "there's 
only one day at a time." 

The Red Queen said: "That's a poor thin 
way of doing things. Now here we mostly 
have days and nights two or three at a time, 
and sometimes in the winter we take as 
many as five nights together — for warmth, 
you know." 



"Are five nights warmer than one night,, 
then?" Alice ventured to ask. 
"Five times as warm, of course." 




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'He thought he saw an Argument 
That proved he was the Pope: 
He looked again, and found it was 

A Bar of Mottled Soap. 
'A fact so dread,' he faintly said, 
'Extinguishes all hope.'" 



When they had been running half an hour 
©r so, the Dodo suddenly called out, "The 
race is over!" and they all crowded round it, 
panting and asking, "But who has won?" 

At last the Dodo said ''Everybody has won, 
and all must have prizes." 



*' How doth the little crocodile 
Improve his shining tail, 

And pour the waters of the Nile 
On every golden scale. 




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"How cheerfully he seems to grin, 
How neatly spreads his claws, 

And welcomes little fishes in 
With gently smiling jaws!" 



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"Well," the Cat went on, "you see a dog 
growls when it's angry, and wags its tail 
when it's pleased. Now / growl when I'm 
pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry." 



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"You should say what you mean," the 
March Hare went on. 

"I do," Alice hastily replied, "at least — 
at least I mean what I say — that's the same 
thing, you know." 

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the 
Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say 
that ' I see what I eat ' is the same thing as 
*I eat what I see.' " 





"You might just as well say," added the 
March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the 
same thing as 'I get what I like.'" 

"You might just as well say," added the 
Dormouse, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is 
the same thing as 'I sleep Avhen I breathe.'" 




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"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 

The frumious Bandersnatch!*' 



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He took his vorpal sword in hand: 

Long time the manxome foe he sought- 

So rested he by the Tumtum tree, 
And stood awhile in thought. 






And as in tiffish thought he stood, 
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, 
And burbled as it came! 



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One, two! One, two! And through and 
through 

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 
He left it dead, and with its head 

He went galumphing back. 



"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 

Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callayl" 

He chortled in his joy. 



'Twas brillig and the slithy toves 
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 
And the mome raths outgrabe. 




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' ' You seem very clever at explaining words, 
sir," said Alice. "Would you kindly tell me 
the meaning of the poem called 'Jabber- 
wocky '? " 

"Let's hear it," said Humpty Dumpty. 
"I can explain all the poems that ever were 
invented, — - and a good many that haven't 
been invented yet." 




This sounded very hopeful, so Alice re- 
peated the first verse. 

"That's enough to begin with," Humpty 
Dumpty interrupted, "there are plenty of 
hard words there. 'Brillig' means four 
o'clock in the afternoon — the time when 
you begin broiling things for dinner." 



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"That'll do very well," said Alice: "and 
'slithy'f' 

"Well, 'slithy' means lithe and slimy. 
'Lithe' is the same as active. You see it is 
like a portmanteau, — there are two meanings 
packed up into one word." 




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"I see it now," Alice remarked thought- 
fully: "and what are 'toves'?" 

"Well, 'toves' are something like badgers — 
they're something like lizards — and they're 
something like corkscrews." 

"The}^ must be very curious looking 
creatures." 

"They are that," said Humpty Dumpty; 
"also they make their nests under sun-dials, 
— also they live on cheese." 



"And what's to 'gyre' and to 'gimble'f" 

"To 'gyre' is to go round and round like a 
gyroscope. To ' gimble' is to make holes like 
a gimlet." 

' ' And ' the wabe ' is the grass-plot around a 
sun-dial, I suppose," said Alice, surprised at 
her own ingenuity. 

"Of course it is. It's called 'wabe,'' you 
know, because it goes a long way before it, 
and a long way behind it " 



"Well, then, ' minis y' is flimsy and miser- 
able (there's another portmanteau for you). 
And a 'borogove' is a thin, shabby-looking 
bird with its feathers sticking out all round 
— something like a live mop." 



" A ' rath ' is a sort of green pig : but ' momc ' 
I'm not certain about. I think it's short for 
from home — meaning that they'd lost their 
>vay, you know. ' Outgrabing' is something 
between bellowing and whistling, with a kind 
of a sneeze in the middle: however, you'll 
hear it done, maybe — down in the wood 
yonder, — and when you've once heard it 
you'll be quite content." 

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"What sort of things do you remember 
best?" Alice ventured to ask. 

"Oh, things that happened the week after 
next," the Queen replied in a careless tone, 
sticking a large piece of plaster on her finger 
as she spoke. 



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"Oh, oh, oh!" shouted the Queen, shaking 
her hand about as if she wanted to shake it 
off. "My finger's bleeding! Oh, oh, oh, oh!" 
Her screams were so exactl}^ like the whistle 
of a steam-engine that Alice had to hold both 
her hands over her ears. 





"What is the matter?" she said, as soon as 
there was a chance of making herself heard. 
"Have you pricked your finger?" 

"I haven't pricked it yet,''^ the Queen said, 
"but I soon shall — oh, oh, oh!" 



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"When do you expect to do it?" Alice 
asked, feeling very much inclined to laugh. 

"When I fasten my shawl again," the poor 
Queen groaned out: "the brooch will come 
undone directly. Oh, oh!" As she said the 
words the brooch flew open and the Queen 
clutched wildly at it and tried to clasp it 
again. 



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"Take care! " cried Alice. "You're holding 
it all crooked!" And she catight at the 
brooch; but it was too late: the pin had 
slipped, and the Queen had pricked her 
finger. 

"That accounts for the bleeding, you see," 
she said to Alice, with a smile. "Now 3^ou 
understand the way things happen here." 




"But why don't you scream now?" Alice 
asked, holding her hands ready to put over 
her ears again. 

"Why, I've done all the screaming already," 
said the Queen. "What would be the good 
of doing it all over again?" 



" 'Tis the voice of the lobster; I heard him 
declare, 
' You have baked me too brown , I must sugar 
my hair.' 
As a duck with his eyelids, so he with his nose 
Trims his belt and his buttons and turns out 
his toes." 



There was a Pig that sat alone 

Beside a ruined Pump: 
By day and night he made his moan — 
It would have stirred a heart of stone 
To see him wring his hoofs and groan 

Because he could not jump. 



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A certain Camel heard him shout — 

A Camel with a hump. 
"Oh, is it Grief, or is it Gout, 
What is this bellowing about?" 
That Pig replied, with quivering snout, 

"Because I cannot jump!" 



That Camel scanned him, dreamy-eyed, 

"Methinks you are too plump. 
I never knew a Pig so wide — 
That wobbled so from side to side — 
Who could, however much he tried — 
Do such a thing as jump! 



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"Yet mark those trees, two miles away, 

All clustered in a clump : 
If you could trot there twice a day, 
Nor ever pause for rest or play, 
In the far future — who can say? — 

You may be fit to jump." 




That Camel passed and left him there 

Beside the ruined Pump. 
Oh, horrid was that Pig's despair! 
His shrieks of anguish filled the air. 
He wrung his hoofs, he rent his hair, 

Because he could not jump. 



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There was a Frog that wandered by — 

A sleek and shining lump: 
Inspected him with fishy eye, 
And said, "Pig, what makes you cry?" 
And bitter was that Pig's reply, 

"Because I cannot jump!" 



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That Frog he grinned a grin of glee 

And hit his chest a thump. 
'O Pig," he said, "be ruled by me, 
And you shall see what you shall see: 
This minute, for a trifling fee, 
I'll teach you how to jump! 




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"You may be faint from many a fall, 

And bruised by many a bump: 
But, if you persevere through all, 
And practice first on something small, 
Concluding with a ten-foot wall, 
You'll find that you can jump!" 



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That Pig looked up with joyful start, 

"O Frog, you are a trump! 
Your words have healed my inward smart- 
Come, name your fee and do your part: 
Bring comfort to a broken heart, 

By teaching me to jump!" 



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"My fee shall be a mutton-chop. 
My goal this ruined Pump. 

Observe with what an airy flop 

I plant myself upon the top! 

Now bend your knees and take a hop, 
For that's the way to jump!" 




up rose that Pig, and rushed, full whack, 

Against the ruined Pump: 
Rolled over like an empty sack, 
And settled down upon his back, 
While all his bones at once went "Crack!" 

It was a fatal jump. 



"Whom did you pass on the road?" the 
King went on. 

"Nobody," said the Messenger. 

"Quite right," said the King. "This 
young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody 
walks slower than you." 



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"I do my best," the Messenger said, in a 
sullen tone. "I'm sure Nobody walks much 
faster than I do!" 

"He can't do that," said the King, "or 
else he'd have been here first." 




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"Would you be good enough," Alice panted 
out, after running a little farther, "to stop 
a minute — just to get — one's breath again! " 

"I'm good enough," said the King, "only 
I'm not strong enough. You see, a minute 
goes by so fearfully quick. You might as 
well try to stop a Bandersnatch." 



The Cat vanished quite slowly, beginning 
with the end of the tail, and ending with the 
grin, which remained some time after the 
rest of it had gone. 

"Well, I've often seen a cat without a 
grin," thought Alice, "but a grin without a 
cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw 
in all my life! " 



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The Hatter was the first to break the 
silence. 

"What day of the month is it?" he said. 
He had taken his watch out of his pocket, 
and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it 
every now and then, and holding it to his ear. 

Alice considered a little, and said, "The 
fourth." 







"Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. 
"I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" 
he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. 

"It was the best butter," the March Hare 
meekly replied. 

"Yes, but some crumbs must have got in 
as well," the Hatter grumbled; "you shouldn't 
have put it in with the bread knife." 




The March Hare took the watch and looked 
at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup 
of tea, and looked at it again: but he could 
think of nothing better to say than his first 
remark, "it was the best butter, you know." 



The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 
"We quarrelled last March, —just before he 
w'ent mad, you know — " (pointing with his 
teaspoon to the March Hare) " — it was at 
the great concert given by the Queen of 
Hearts and I had to sing. I'd hardly 
finished the first verse when the Queen 
bawled out, 'He's murdering the time. Off- 
with his head.' " 




"And ever since then," the Hatter went on 
in a mournful tone, "he won't do a thing I 
ask! It's always six o'clock now." 

A bright idea came into Alice's head. "Is 
that the reason so many tea things are put 
out here?" she asked. 

"Yes, that's it," said the Hatter with a 
sigh. "It's always tea time, and we've no 
chance to wash the dishes between whiles." 



"Then you keep moving round, I suppose," 
said Alice. 

"Exactly so," said the Hatter, "as the 
things get used up." 

"But when you come to the beginning 
again," Alice ventured to ask. 

"Suppose we change the subject," the 
March Hare, interposed, yawning, "I'm 
getting tired of this." 



"The name of the Song is called ' Haddocks ' 
Eyes.' " 

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" 
said Alice. 

"No, you don't understand," said the 
Knight, looking a little vexed. "That's 
what the name is called.'' 




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"Then I ought to have said, 'That's what 
the song is called?'" Alice corrected herself. 

"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another 
thing! The song is called ' Ways and Means ' ; 
but that's only what it is called, you know." 




"Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, 
who was by this time completely bewildered. 

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. 
"The song really is 'A-Sitting on a Gate,' and 
the tune's my own invention." 



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"It's long," said the Knight, "but it's 
very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears 
me sing it — either it brings the tears into 
their eyes, or else " 

"Or else w^hat?" said Alice, for the Knight 
had made a sudden pause. 

"Or else it doesn't, you know." 



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"It's v,ery provoking!" said Alice. "I've 
cut several slices already, but they always 
join on again! " 

"You don't know how to manage Looking- 
Glass Cakes," the Unicorn remarked. "Hand 
it round first, and cut it afterwards." 



"Look on the branch above your head,' 
said the Gnat, "and there you'll find a 
Snap-dragon-fl}^ Its body is made of plum- 
pudding, its wings of holly leaves, and its 
head is a raisin burning in brandy." 



'And if in other days and hours 
Mid other fluffs and other flowers, 
The choice were given me how to dine — • 
'Name what thou wilt; it shall be thine!* 

Oh, then I see 

The life for me 
Ipwergis-Pudding to consume, 
And drink the subtle Azzigoom!" 



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" To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; 
To pursue it with forks and hope; 
To threaten its life with a railway share; 
To charm it with smiles and soap! 



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'For the Snark's a peculiar creature that 
won't 
Be caught in a commonplace way. 
Do all that you know, and try all that you 
don't : 
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!" 



Then the Banker endorsed a blank check 
^1 (which he crossed) 

Al And changed his loose silver for notes. 

^"^ The Baker with care combed his whiskers and 
hair, 
And shook the dust out of his coats. 



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"Be a man! " said the Bellman in wrath, as be 
heard 
The Butcher beginning to sob. 
"Should we meet with a Jubjub, that desperate 
bird, 
We shall need all our strength for the job! " 



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"Don't stand chattering to yourself like 
that," HumjDty Dumpty said, looking at her 
for the first time, "but tell me your name and 
your business." 

"M}' name is Alice, but, " 

"It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty 
Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What 
does it mean?" 



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'*Must a name mean something?" Alice 
asked doubtfully. 

' ' Of course it must , ' ' Humpty Dumpty said 
with a short laugh: "my name means the 
shape I am — - and a good handsome shape it 
is, too. With a name like yours — you 
might be an 5^ shape, almost." 



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"This conversation is going on a little too 
fast : let's go back to the last remark but one." 

"I'm afraid I can't quite remember it," 
Alice said, very politely. 

"In that case we start fresh," said Humpty 
Dumpty, "and it's my turn to choose a 
subject. How old did you say you were?" 



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Alice made a short calculation and said 
"Seven years and six months." 

"Wrong!" Humpty Dumpty exclaimed 
triumphantly. "You never said a word like 
it." 

' ' I thought you meant ' ' How old are you ? " 
Alice explained. 

"If I'd meant that, I'd have said it," said 
Humpty Dumpty. 

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"Seven years and six months!" Humpty 
Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. "An un- 
comfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked 
my advice, I'd have said 'Leave off at seven' 
— but it's too late now." 




The most curious part of the thing was that 
the trees and the other things around them 
never changed their places at all; however 
fast they went they never seemed to pass 
anything. "I wonder if all the things move 
along with us!" thought poor puzzled Alice. 
And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, 
for she cried, "Faster! Don't try to talk!" 



She felt as if she would never be able to 
talk again, and still the Queen cried "Faster! 
Faster!" and dragged her along. "Are we 
nearly there?" Alice managed to pant out at 
last. 

"Nearly there!" the Queen repeated. 
"Why we passed it ten minutes ago!" 



They ran on for a time in silence, with the 
wind whistling in Alice's ears. 

"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! 
Faster!" And they went so fast that at 
last they seemed to skim through the air, 
hardly touching the ground with their feet. 



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Suddenl}^ just as Alice was getting quite 
exhausted, they stopped, and she found 
herself sitting on the ground, breathless and 
giddy. 

She looked round her in great surprise. 
"Why, I do believe we've been under this 
tree the whole time! Everything's just as 
it was! " 

"Of course it is," said the Queen. "What 
would 3^ou have it?" 
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"In our country," said Alice, "you'd gen- 
erally get to somewhere else — if you ran 
very fast for a long time, as we've been 
doing." 

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. 
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running 
you can do, to keep in the same place. If 
you want to get somewhere else, you must 
run at least twice as fast as that!" 



"If seven maids with seven mops 

Swept it for half a year, 
Do you suppose," the Walrus said, 
"That thej^ could get it clear?" 
"I doubt it," said the Carpenter, 

And shed a bitter tear. 



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The Mock Turtle sighed deeply and drew 
the back of one flapper across his eyes. He 
looked at Alice and tried to speak, but for a 
minute or two sobs choked his voice. At 
last he recovered his voice and with tears 
running down his cheeks he went on again: 



"You may not have lived much under the 

, sea — ' * ("I haven't," said Alice) — "and per- 

^*^ haps you were never even introduced to a 

Lobster, so you can have no idea what a 

delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is." 



"No, indeed," said Alice. "What sort of 
a dance is it?" 

"Why," said the Gryphon, "you first form 
into a line on the seasJiore " 

"Two lines!" cried the Mock Turtle. 
"Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on: then, 
when you've cleared all the jelly fish out of 
the way " 




"That generally takes some time," inter- 
rupted the Gryphon. 

"You advance twice " 

"Each with a lobster as a partner!" cried 
the Gryphon. 



"Of course," the Mock Turtle said: 
vance twice, set to partners " 

"Change lobsters, and retire in 
order," continued the Gryphon. 



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"Then, you know," the Mock Turtle went 
on, "you throw the " 

"The lobsters! " shouted the Gryphon, with 
a bound into the air. 

"As far out to sea as you can " 

"Swim after them! " screamed the Gryphon. 

"Turn a somersault in the sea!" cried the 
Mock Turtle, capering wildly about. 

"Change lobsters again!" yelled the 
Gryphon at the top of his voice. 



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"Back to land again, and — that's all the 
first figure," said the Mock Turtle, suddenly- 
dropping his voice, and the two creatures, 
who had been jumping about like wild things 
all this time, sat down again very sadl}^ and 
quietly, and looked at Alice. 



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After looking everywhere for the Queen 
(whom she spied at last a long way off) , she 
thought she would try the plan this time, of 
M'alking in the opposite direction. It suc- 
ceeded beautifully. She had not been walk- 
ing a minute before she found herself face to 
face with the Red Queen and in full sight of 
the hill she had been so long aiming at. 



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"Where do you come from?" said the 
Red Queen. "And where are you going? 
Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle 
your fingers all the time." 

Alice attended to all these directions, and 
explained, as well as she could, that she had 
lost her way. 



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"I don't know what you mean by your 
way," said the Queen; "all the ways^ about 
here belong to me — but why did you come 
out here at all?" she added in a kinder tone. 
"Courtesy while you are thinking what to 
say. It saves time." 



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Alice wondered a little at this, but she 
was too much in awe of the Queen to disbe- 
lieve it. "I'll try it when I go home," she 
thought to herself, "the next time I am late 
for duiner." 

"It's time for you to answer now," the 
Queen said, looking at her watch; "open 
your mouth a little wider when you speak, 
and always say 'your majesty.'" 



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"I am so hot and thirsty," said Alice. 

"I know what you'd like!" the Queen said 
good-naturedly, taking a little box out of 
her pocket. "Have a biscuit?" 




Alice thought it would not be civil to say 
"No," although it was not at all what she 
wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well 
as she could and it was very dry; and she 
thought she had never been so nearly choked 
in her life. 



"Have another biscuit?" said the Queen. 
"No, thank you," said Alice: "one's quite 
enough! " 

" Thirst quenched, I hope?" said the Queen. 



"Once upon a time there were three little 
sisters," began the Dormouse, "and their 
names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they 
lived at the bottom of a well " 

"What did they live on?" said Alice. 

"The}^ lived on treacle," said the Dor- 
mouse, after thinking a minute or two. 

"They couldn't have done that," Alice 
gently remarked: "They'd have been ill." 

"So they were," said the Dormouse; " very 
ill." 



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"But why did they live at the bottom of 
a well?" 

"Take some more tea," the March Hare 
said to Alice, ver}^ earnestly. 

"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied, in 
an offended tone, "so I can't take more." 

"You mean, you can't take less," said the 
Hatter; "it's very easy to take more than 
nothing." 



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Alice helped herself to some tea and bread 
and butter, and then repeated her question, 
"Why did they live at the bottom of a well? " 

The Dormouse again took a minute or two 
to think about it, and then said, "It was a 
treacle-well." 

"There's no such thing," Alice was begin- 
ning very angrily, but the Hatter and the 
March Hare went "Sh! sh!" and the Dor- 
mouse sulkily remarked, "If you can't be 
civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself. " 
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"No, please go on," Alice said very humbly ,^ 
"I daresay there ma^ be one." 

"One, indeed!" said the Dormouse indig- 
nantly. However, he consented to go on. 
' ' And so these three sisters — they were 
learning to draw, you know " 

"What did they draw?" said Alice. 

"Treacle," said the Dormouse. 



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Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse 
again, so she began very cautiously: "But I 
don't understand. Where did they draw the 
treacle from?" 

"You can draw water out of a water- well," 
said the Hatter, "so I think you could draAv 
treacle out of a treacle-well, — eh, stupid?" 

"But they were in the well," said Alice to 
the Dormouse. 

"Of course they were," said the Dormouse, 
— "well in." 
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"They were learning to draw," the Dor- 
mouse went on," and they drew all manner 
of things, — everything that begins with an 
M, " 

"Why with an M?" said Alice. 

"Why not?" said the March Hare. 



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The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this 
time and was going off into a little doze, but 
on being pinched by the Hatter it woke up 
and went on : — " that begins with an M , such 
as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory 
and muchness — you know they say things 
are ' much of a muchness ' — did you ever 
see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness? " 

"Really, now you ask me," said Alice, 
much confused, "I don't think *' 

"Then you shouldn't talk." said the Hatter. 



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The Banker, inspired with a courage so new- 
It was matter for general remark, 

Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their 
view 
In his zeal to discover the Snark. 



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But while he was seeking with thimbles and 
care, 
A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh 
And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in 
despair. 
For he knew it was useless to fly. 



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Without rest or pause, while those frumious 
jaws 
Went savagely snapping around — 
He skipped and he hopped — and he floun- 
dered and flopped, 
Till fainting he fell to the ground. 





The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared, 
Led on by that fear-stricken yell: 

And the Bellman remarked, "It is just as I 
feared!" 
And solemnly tolled on his bello 



He was black in the face, and they scarcely 
could trace 
The least likeness to what he had been: 
While so great was his fright that his waistcoat 
turned white — 
A wonderful thing to be seen! 



To the horror of all who were present that day, 
He uprose in full evening dress, 

And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to 
say 
What his tongue could no longer express. 




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Down he sank in a chair, ran his hands 
through his hair — 

And chanted in mimsiest tones 
Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity 

While he rattled a couple of bones. 



"Can you play croquet?" shouted the 
Queen. 

"Yes!" shouted Alice. 

"Come on then!" roared the Queen, and 
Alice joined the procession, wondering very 
much what would happen next. 



Alice thought she had never seen such a 
curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all 
ridges and furrows; the croquet -balls were 
live hedge-hogs, and the mallets live flamin- 
goes, and the soldiers had to double them- 
selves up and stand on their heads and feet, 
to make the arches. 




The chief difficulty Alice found at first was 
in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in 
getting its body tucked away comfortably 
enough under her arm, with its legs hanging 
down, but generally, just as she had got its 
neck nicely straightened out and was going 
to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, 
it would twist itself around and look up into 
her face. 



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When she had got its head down and was 
going to begin again, it was very provoking 
to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself 
and was in the act of crawling away. 



As the doubled-up soldiers were always get- 
ting up and walking off to other parts of the 
ground, Alice soon came to the conckision 
that it was a very difficult game indeed. 




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The players all played at once, without 
waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, 
and fighting for the hedgehogs, and in a very ^ 
short time the Queen was in a furious passion 
and went about stamping and shouting, "Off 
with his head!" or "Off with her head!" 
about once in a minute. 



Alice began to feel ver}^ uneasy. She had 
already heard the Queen sentence three of 
the players to be executed for having missed 
their turns, and she did not like the looks of 
things at all. 




' I sent a message to the fish : 
I told them, 'This is what I wish.' 

' The little fishes of the sea, 
They sent an answer back to me. 

' The little fishes' answer was 

'We cannot do it, sir, because 



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' I sent to them again to say 
' It will be better to obey. ' 

' The fishes answered with a grin, 
'Why, what a temper you are in!* 



14 



' I took a kettle large and new, 
Fit for the deed I had to do. 

' My heart went hop, my heart went thump; 
I filled the kettle at the pump. 



15 



' Then some one came to me and said, 
'The little fishes are in bed.' 

'I said to him, I said it plain, 

'Then you must wake them up again, 

' I said it to him loud and clear ; 
I went and shouted in his ear. 




19 

Alice had read several nice little stories 
about children who had got burned, and 
eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant 
things, all because they would not remember 
the simple rules their friends had taught them, 
such as, a red-hot poker will bum you if held 
too long; and that if you cut your finger very 
deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and 
she had never forgotten that, if you drink much 
from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost 
certain to disagree with you sooner or later. 



This bottle was not marked "poison," so 
Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very 
nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour 
of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast 
turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast), she 
verv soon finished it off. 



'His form is ungainly, — his intellect small" 
(So the Bellman would often remark), 

'But his courage is perfect! And that, after 
all, 
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark." 




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"Crawling at your feet," said the Gnat, 
"you may observe a B read- and-B utter fly. 
Its wings are thin slices of bread and butter, 
its body is a crust, and its head a lump of 
sugar. 

"And what does it live on?" 

"Weak tea with cream in it." 



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"Supposing it couldn't find any," Alice 
suggested. 

"Then it would die, of course." 

"But that must happen very often," Alice 
remarked thoughtfully. 

"It always happens," said the Gnat. 




"When a man's tipsy, he sees one thing as 
two. But when he's extremely sober, he sees 
two things as one. It's equally inconvenient, 
whichever happens." 





' ' Why do you sit out there alone ? ' 
Alice. 

"Why, because there's nobody with me!" 
cried Humpty Dumpty. "Did you think I 
didn't know the answer to that? Ask another." 



"I see you're admiring my little box." the 
Knight said, in a friendly tone. "It's my 
own invention, to keep clothes and sand- 
wiches in. You see I carry it upside down, 
so that the rain can't get in." 

"But the things can get out,'' Alice gently 
remarked. "Do you know the lid's open?" 



27 



"I'll tell thee everything I can: 

There's little to relate. 
I saw an aged, aged man, 

A-sitting on a gate. 
'Who are you, aged man?' I said, 

' And how is it ^''ou live ? ' 
And his ansv.-er trickled through my head 

Like water through a sieve. 




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"He said, 'I look for butterflies 

That sleep among the wheat; 
I make them into mutton-pies, 

And sell them in the street. 
I sell them unto men,' he said, 

'Who sail on stormy seas; 
And that's the way I get my bread 

A trifle, if you please.' " 




"As to the whiting," said the Mock Turtle, 
"they — you've seen them, of course?" 

"I believe so," Alice replied thoughtfully. 
"They have their tails in their mouths and 
they're all over crumbs." 



"You're wrong about the crumbs," said the 
Mock Turtle: "crumbs would all wash off in 
the sea. But they have their tails in their 
mouths, and the reason is" — here the Mock 
Turtle yawned and shut his eyes — "Tell her 
about the reason and all that," he said to the 
Gryphon. 




"The reason is," said the Gryphon, "that 
they would go with the lobsters to the dance. 
So they got thrown out to sea. So they had 
to fall a long way. So they got their tails 
j'ast in their mouths. So they couldn't get 
them out again. That's all!" 




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"jHe thought he saw an Albatress 
That fluttered round the lamp: 

He looked again and found it was 
A Penn5^-Postage-Stamp. 

'You'd best be getting home,' he said: 
'The nights are very damp!'" 




"Can you do addition?" the White Queen 
asked. "What's one and one and one and 
one and one and one and one and one and 
one and one?" 

"I don't know," said Alice, "I lost count." 
"She can't do Addition," the Red Queen 
interrupted. 




3 



"Can you do Subtraction? 
from eight." 

"Nine from eight, I can't, you know," 
AUce repUed very readily, "but " 

"She can't do Subtraction," said the White 
Queen. 




"Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by 
a knife — what's the answer to that?" 

"I suppose," Alice was beginning, but the 
Red Queen answered for her, "Bread-and- 
butter, of course." 



"Try another subtraction sum. Take a 
bone from a dog. What remains?" 

Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't 
remain, of course, if I took it — and the dog 
wouldn't remain; it would come and bite 
me — and I'm sure / shouldn't remain!" 

"Then you think nothing would remain?" 
said the Red Queen. 

"I think that's the answer." 




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"Wrong as usual," said the Red Queen. 
"The dog's temper would remain." 

"But I don't see how " 

"Why. look here!" the Red Queen cried. 
"The dog would lose its temper, wouldn't it?" 

"Perhaps it would," Alice replied cau- 
tiously. 

"Then if the dog went away, its temper 
would remain!" the Queen exclaimed trium- 
phantly, 
7 — — ■ 

"She can't do sums a hit!'' the Queens said 
together, with great emphasis. 

"Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning 
suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't 
like being found fault with so much. 

The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I 
can do Addition," she said, "if you give me 
time, but I can't do Subtraction under any 
circumstances! " 




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"Of course you know your A B C?" said 
the Red Queen. 

"To be sure I do," said Alice. 

"So do I!" the White Queen whispered. 
"We'll often say it over together, dear. And 
I '11 tell you a secret — I can read words of 
one letter! Isn't that grand? However, 
don't be discouraged. You'll come to it in 
time." 



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The Bellman perceived that their spirits were 
low, 

And repeated in musical tone 
Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe — ■ 

But the crew would do nothing but groan. 



He served out some grog with a liberal hand, 
And bade them sit down on the beach: 

And they could not but own that their Captain 
looked grand, 
As he stood and delivered his speech. 



" Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again 

The five unmistakable marks 
By which you may know, wheresoever you go, 

The warranted genuine Snarks. 




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"Lei us take them in order. The first is the 
taste, 
Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp: 
Like a coat that is rather too tight in the 
waist , 
With a flavour of Will-o '-the- Wisp. 



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"Its habit of getting up late you'll agree 
That it carries too far, when I say 

That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock 
tea, 
And dines on the following day. 



14 



"The third is its slowness in taking a jest. 

Should you happen to venture on one, 
It will sigh like a thing that is deeply dis- 
tressed ; 

And it always looks grave at a pun. 




"The fourth is its fondness for bathing- 
machines, 
Which it constantly carries about, 
And believes that they add to the beauty of 
scenes — 
A sentiment open to doubt." 



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Tweedledum sprang out from under the 
umbrella and seized Alice by the wrist. 

"Do you see that?" he asked, in a voice 
choking with passion, as he pointed with a 
trembling finger to a small white object lying 
under the tree. 

"It's only^ a rattle," Alice said, after a 
careful examination. "Only an -old rattle — 
quite old and broken." 



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"But it isn't old!" Tweedledum cried in a 
greater fury than ever. "It's new, I tell 
you — I bought it yesterday — my nice new 
RATTLE!" and his voice rose to a perfect 
scream. All this time Tweedledee was trying 
his best to fold up the umbrella with himself 
in it. 



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"Of course you agree to have a battle?" 
Tweedledum said, in a calmer tone. 

"I suppose so," the other sulkily replied, 
as he crawled out of the umbrella: "only she 
must help us to dress up, you know." 



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So the two brothers went off hand in hand 
into the wood, and returned in a minute with 
their arms full of things — such as bolsters, 
blankets, hearth rugs, tablecovers, dishcloths 
and coal-scuttles. "I hope you're a good 
hand at pinning, and t3^ing strings," Tweedle- 
dum remarked. "Every one of these things 
has got to go on, somehow or other." 



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"Do I look very pale?" said Tweedledum, 
coming up to have his helmet tied on. (He 
called it a helmet, though it certainly looked 
more like a saucepan.) 

"Well — yes — a little,'' Alice replied 
gently. 

"I'm very brave generally," he went on, 
in a low voice; "only to-day I happen to 
have a headache." 



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"And I've got a toothache!" said Tweedle- 
dee. "I'm far worse than you!" 

"Then you'd better not fight to-day," said 
Alice. 

"We must have a bit of a fight, but I don't 
care about going on long," said Tweedledum. 
"Let's fight till six, and then have dinner," 



"Very well," said the other, rather sadly, 
"and she can watch us — only you'd better 
not come very close," he added: "I generally 
hit everything I can see — when I get really 
excited." 

"And / hit everything within reach," cried 
Tweedledum, "whether I can see it or not!" 



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"You!" said the Caterpillar contempt- 
uously. "Who are youf" 

Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar 
making such very short remarks, and she drew 
herself up and said, very gravely, "I think 
you ought to tell me who you are first." 

"Why?" said the Caterpillar. 



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"Come back!" the Caterpillar called after 
her. "I've something important to say!" 

This sounded promising, certainly; Alice 
turned and came back again. 

"Keep your temper!" said the Caterpillar. 



25 



"Will you walk a little faster? " said a Avhiting 

to a snail, 
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's 

treading on my tail. 
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles 

all advance! 
They are waiting on the shingle — will you 

come and join the dance? 



26 



"You can really have no notion how delightful 

it will be 
When they take us up and throw us with the 

lobsters, out to sea." 
But the snail replied, "Too far, too far!" and 

gave a look askance. 
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he 

would not ioin the dance. 
Would not, could not, would not, could not, 

would not join the dance. 
Would not, could not, would not, could not, 

could not join the dance. 



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"What matters it how far we go?'^ his scaiy 

friend repHed, 
"There is another shore, you know, upon the 

other side. 
The further off from England, the nearer is to 

France ; 
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come 

and join the dance. 
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will 

you join the dance? 
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, 

won't you join the dance?" 
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"Black Light and Nothing, look so ex- 
tremely alike, at first sight, that I don't 
wonder he failed to distinguish them." 



"It were proud of its new tail! You never 
saw a Crocodile so proud! Why, it could go 
round and walk on the top of its tail and 
along its back all the way to its head!" 



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Alice saw the Cheshire cat sitting on the 
bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat grinned 
when it saw AHce. 

"\yould you tell me, please," said Alice, 
"which way I ought to walk from here?" 

"That depends a good deal upon where you 
want to get to," said the Cat. 

"I don't much care where " said Alice, 

" so long as I get somewhere .*' 

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, 
"if you only Avalk long enough." 



Alice tried another question. "What sort 
of people live about here?" 

"In that direction," said the Cat, waving 
his right paw round, "lives a Hatter, and in 
that direction," waving the other paw, "lives 
a March Hare. Visit either you like; they're 
both mad." 



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"But I don't want to go among mad 
people," Alice remarked. 

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, 
"we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're 
mad." 

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. 

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you 
wouldn't have come here." 




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Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was 
immediately suppressed by the officers of the 
court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will 
just explain to you how it was done. They 
had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the 
mouth with strings : into this they slipped the 
guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon it.) 



**{He thought he saw a Coach- and-f our 

That stood beside his bed: 
He looked again and found it was 

A bear without a Head. 
'Poor thing,' he said, 'poor silly thing! 

'It's waiting to be fed!'" 



"Sobriety is a very good thing, when 
practised in moderation: but even Sobriety, 
when carried to an extreme, has its disad- 
vantages." 



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"Remember, it's the early bird that picks 
up the worm!" 

"It may, if it likes," said Bruno with a 
slight 3^awn. "I don't like eating worms, 
one bit. I always stop in bed until the early 
bird has picked them up!" 



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" If everybody minded their own business," 
said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, "the 
world would go around a great deal faster 
than it does! " 



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"Which would not be an advantage," said 
Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity 
of showing off a little of her knowledge. 
"Just think what work it would make with 
the day and night! You see the earth takes 
twenty-four hours to turn round on its 
axis " 

"Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop 
off her head!" 



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"The Medicine's the great thing, you know. 
The Diseases are much less important. You 
can keep a Medicine for years and years and 
years, but nobody ever wants to keep a 
Disease/" 



"You are old," said the youth, "and your 
jaws are too weak 
For anything tougher than suet; 
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones 
and the beak. 
Pray how did you manage to do it ? " 



"In my youth," said his father, "I took to 
the law. 

And argued each case with my wife; 
And the muscular strength it gave to my jaw 

Has lasted the rest of my life." 



October 



Alice went on, "And I thought I'd try and 
find my way to the top of that hill, " 

"When you say 'hill,'" the Queen inter- 
rupted, "7 could show you hills in comparison 
with which you'd call that a valley." 



13 



"No, I shouldn't," said Alice, surprised 
into contradicting her at last; "a hill can't be 
a valley, you know. That would be non- 
sense." 

The Red Queen shook her head. "You 
may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, 
"but Fve heard nonsense, compared with 
which that would be as sensible as a dic- 
tion arv!" 



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"I only took the regular course," said the 
Mock Turtle, with a sigh. 

"What was that?" inquired Alice. 

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin 
with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then 
the different branches of Arithmetic — ■ 
Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Deri- 



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15 



"I never heard of Uglification," Alice ven- 
tured to say. "What is it?" 

The Gryphon Hfted up both its paws in 
surprise. "Never heard of uglifying!" it 
exclaimed. "You know what to beautify is, 
I suppose?" 

"Yes," said Alice doubtfully, "It means 
to make anything prettier." 

"Well, then," the Gryphon went on," if 
you don't know what to uglify is, you are a 
simpleton." 
16 

Alice turned to the Mock Turtle and said, 
"What else had you to learn?" 

"Well, there was Mystery," the Mock 
Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on 
his flappers — "Mystery, ancient and mod- 
em, with Seaography : then Drawling, — the 
Drawling-Master was an old conger-eel that 
used to come once a week: he taught us 
Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils." 




17 



"What was that like?" said Alice. 

"Well, I can't show it to you, myself," the 
Mock Turtle said, "I'm too stiff. And the 
Gryphon never learned it." 

"Hadn't time," said the Gryphon, "I went 
to the Classical master, though. He was an 
old crab, he was." 



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"I never went to him," the Mock Turtle 
said, with a sigh. "He taught Laughing and 
Grief, they used to sa}^" 

"So he did, so he did," said the Gryphon, 
sighing in his turn, and both creatures hid 
their faces in their paws. 



19 



"And how many hours a day did you do 
lessons?" said Alice. 

"Ten hours the first day," said the Mock 
Turtle, "nine the next, and so on." 

"What a curious plan!" exclaimed iVlice. 

"That's the reason they're called Lessons," 
the Gryphon remarked, "because they lessen 
from day to day." 




This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she 
thought over it a little before she made her 
next remark. "Then the eleventh day must 
have been a holiday?" 

"Of course it was," said the Mock Turtle. 

"And how did you manage on the twelfth? " 
Alice went on eagerly. 

"That's enough about lessons," the Gry- 
phon interrupted in a very decided tone. 



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21 



Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan 

For making a separate sally; 
And had fixed on a spot unfrequented by 
man, 

A dismal and desolate valley. 



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But the very same place to the Beaver 
occurred ; 

It had chosen the very same place : 
Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word, 

The disgust that appeared in his face. 



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Each thought he was thinking of nothing but 
"Snark" 
And the glorious work of the day; 
And each tried to pretend that he did not 
remark 
That the other was going that way. 



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Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the 
shuddering sky, 

And they knew that some danger was near. 
The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail,. 

And even the Butcher felt queer. 




— 24 — 



25 



26 




'Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I 

entreat, 
You will find I have told it you twice. 
'Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is 

complete, 
If only I've stated it thrice. 



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"As to temper, the Jubjub's a desperate bird, 
Since it lives in perpetual passion, 

Its taste in costume is entirely absurd — 
It is ages ahead of the fashion. 



29 



"But it knows any friend it has met once 
before : 

It never will look at a bribe: 
And in charity meetings it stands at the door 

And collects — though it does not subscribe. 




"Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite 
far 

Than mutton or oysters or eggs 
(Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar 

And some, in mahogany kegs) ; 



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"You boil it in sawdust, you salt it in glue: 
^ You condense it with locusts and tape: 
Still keeping one principal object in view — 
To preserve its symmetrical shape." 



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The Butcher would gladly have talked till 
next day, 

But he felt that the Lesson must end. 
And he wept with delight in attempting to say 

He considered the Beaver his friend. 



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While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate 
looks 
More eloquent even than tears, 
It had learned in ten minutes far more than 
all books 
Would have taught it in seventy years. 



They returned, hand in hand, and the Bellman, 
unmanned 
(For a moment) with noble emotion, 
Said, "This amply repays all the wearisome 
days 
We have spent on the billowy ocean!" 



Alice noticed a curious appearance in the 
air: it puzzled her very much at first, but 
after watching it a minute or two she made it 
out to be a grin, and she said to herself, "It's 
the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody 
to talk to." 



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"How are you getting on?" said the Cat, 
as soon as there was mouth enough for it to 
speak with. 

Alice waited until the eyes appeared and 
then nodded. "It's no use speaking to it," 
she thought, "until its ears have come, or at 
least one of them." In another minute the 
whole head appeared. The Cat seemed to 
think that there was enough of it now in 
sight, and no more appeared. 



"Who are you talking to?" said the King, 
coming up to Alice, and looking at the Cat's 
head with great curiosity. 

"It's a friend of mine — a Cheshire Cat," 
said Alice: "allow me to introduce it." 

"I don't like the look of it at all," said the 
King. "It may kiss my hand if it likes." 

"I'd rather not," the Cat remarked. 



"Don't be impertinent," said the King, 
"and don't look at me like that!" He got 
behind Alice as he spoke. 

"A cat may look at a king," said Alice. 
"I've read that in some book." 

"Well, it must be removed," said the King, 
very decidedly. 




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He called to the Queen, who was passing 
at that moment, "My dear, I wish you would 
have this cat removed!" 

The Queen had only one way of settling all 
difficulties, great or small. "Off with his 
head! " she said, without even looking around. 

"I'll fetch the executioner myself," said the 
King eagerly. 



The executioner's argument was that you 
couldn't cut off a head unless there was a 
body to cut it off from: that he had never had 
to do such a thing before, and that he wasn't 
going to begin at his time of life. The 
King's argument was that anything that had 
a head could be beheaded and you weren't to 
talk nonsense. The Queen's argument was 
that if something wasn't done about it in less 
than no time, she'd have everybody executed, 
all round. 
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The Cat's head began fading away the 
moment the executioner had gone, and by 
the time he came back with the Duchess, it 
had entirely disappeared, so the King and 
the executioner ran wildly up and down 
looking for it. 



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"The Walrus and the Carpenter 
Were walking close at hand: 

They wept like any thing to see 
Such quantities of sand. 

'If this were only cleared away,' 
They said, 'it would be grand.' 



'Oysters, come and walk with us!* 
The Walrus did beseech. 

'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk 
Along the briny beach: 

We cannot do with more than four, 
To give a hand to each.' 



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The eldest Oyster looked at him, 
But never a word he said: 

The eldest Oyster winked his eye, 
And shook his heavy head — 

Meaning to say he did not choose 
To leave the oyster-bed. 



'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 

'To talk of many things: 
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax - 

Of cabbages — and kings — 
And why the sea is boiling hot — 

And whether pigs have wings.* 




'But wait a bit,' the Oysters cried, 
'Before we have our chat; 

For some of us are out of breath, 
And all of us are fat.' 

'No hurry!' said the Carpenter, 
They thanked him much for that. 



'A loaf of bread,' the Walrus said, 
'Is what we chiefly need: 

Pepper and vinegar besides 
Are very good indeed — 

Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear, 
We can begin to feed.' 



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'But not on us,' the Oysters cried, 

Turning a little blue, 
'After such kindness that would be 

A dismal thing to do ! ' 
'The night is fine,' the Walrus said, 

'Do you admire the view?' 



*It was so kind of you to come! 

And you are very nice!' 
The Carpenter said nothing but 

'Cut us another slice: 
I wish you were not quite so deaf — 

I've had to ask you twice.' 



'It seems a shame,' the Walrus said, 
'To play them such a trick, 

After we've brought them out so far 
And made them trot so quick!* 

The Carpenter said nothing but 
'The butter's spread too thick!* 




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*I weep for you,' the Walrus said, 

1 1 deeply sympathize.' 
With sobs and tears he sorted out 

Those of the largest size, 
Holding his pocket-handkerchief 

Before his streaming eyes. 



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'O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, 
'You've had a pleasant run! 

Shall we be trotting home again?' 
But answer came there none — 

And this was scarcely odd, because 
They'd eaten every one." 



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"If that there King was to wake," said 
Tweedledum, "you'd go out — bang! — just 
like a candle! " 

"I shouldn't! " Alice exclaimed indignantly. 
"Besides, if Pm only a sort of thing in his 
dream, what are you, I should like to know?" 

"Ditto," said Tweedledum. 

"Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee. 




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"I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry. 
"You won't make yourself a bit realler by 
crying," Tweedledee remarked. 



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"Mine is a long and sad tale!" said the 
Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 

"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, 
looking down with wonder at the Mouse's 
tail, "but why do you call it sad?" 



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He would answer to "Hi!" or any loud cry. 
Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" 

To " What-you-may-call-um I " or "What was 
his name!" 
But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!" 




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While for those who preferred a more forcible 
word 
He had different names from these: 
His intimate friends called him "Candle- 
ends," 
And his enemies "Toasted cheese." 



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"He's a very learned doctor. Why, he's 
actually invented three new diseases, besides 
a new way of breaking your collar bone!" 



SDecembet \ 



"What is it you want to buy?" the Sheep 
said, at last, looking up for a moment from 
her knitting. 

"I don't quite know yet," Alice said very 
gently. "I should like to look all round me 
first, if I might." 

"You may look in front of you, and on 
both sides, if you like," said the Sheep, "but 
you can't look all round you — unless you've 
got eyes in the back of your head." 



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The Fish-Footman began by producing 
from under his arm a great letter, nearly as 
large as himself, and this he handed over to 
the other, saying in a solemn tone, "For the 
Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to 
play croquet." The Frog-Footman repeated 
in the same solemn tone, only changing the 
order of the words a little, "From the 
Queen. An invitation to the Duchess to play 
croquet." 
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"Please, would you tell me," said Alice a 
little timidly, "why your cat grins like that?" 

"It's a Cheshire cat," said the Duchess, 
"and that's why." 



Alice went on. "I didn't know Cheshire 
cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know 
that cats cottld grin." 

"They all can," said the Duchess, "and 
most of 'em do." 

"I don't know of any that do," Alice said, 
very politely. 

"You don't know much," said the Duchess, 
"and that's a fact." 




*"You are old,' said the youth, 'as I men- 
tioned before, 
And have grown most uncommonly fat; 
Yet 5'"ou turned a back somersault in at the 
door — 
Pray, what is the reason of that?* 




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'/??^ " *In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his 
' ^T'VM gray locks, 

*I kept all my limbs very supple 
By the use of this ointment — one shilling 
the box — 
Allow me to sell you a couple.'" 



"What is the use of a book?" thought 
Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" 




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When the Rabbit actually took a watch out 
of its waistcoat pocket and looked at it, Alice 
started to her feet, for it flashed across her 
mind that she had never before seen a Rabbit 
with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to 
take out of it. 



Humpty Dumpty began again. "Words 
have a temper, some of them — particularly 
verbs, they're the proudest — adjectives you 
can do anything with, but not verbs, — how- 
ever, / can manage the whole lot of them!" 



"Impenetrability! That's what / say!" 
"Would you tell me, please," said Alice, 
"what that means?" 

"Now you talk like a reasonable child," 
said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much 
pleased. "I meant by 'impenetrability' that 
we've had enough of that subject, and it 
would be just as well if you'd mention what 
you mean to do next, as I don't suppose you 
mean to stop here all the rest of your life." 



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"That's a great deal to make one word 
mean," Alice said, in a thoughtful tone. 

"When I make a word do a lot of work 
like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always 
pay it extra." 



*'He thought he saw an Elephant, 
That practised on a fife: 

He looked again, and found it was 
A letter from his wife. 

'At length I realise,' he said, 
'The bitterness of life!'" 



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"You should never say 'more far,'" Sylvie 
corrected him: "you should say 'farther." 

"Then you shouldn't say 'more broth' when 
we're at dinner," Bruno retorted. "You 
should say 'brother.'" 



"You couldn't knock him down," said 
Bruno. "He's more wider than he's high: so, 
when he's lying down, he's more higher than 
when he's standing, so a-course you couldn't 
knock him down." 




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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! 
How I wonder what you're at. 
Up above the world you fly, 
Like a tea tray in the sky." 



Bruno was gazing earnestly into the field 
where a horse , a cow , and a kid were browsing 
amicably together. ' ' For its father, a Horse," 
he murmured to himself. "For its mother, a 
Cow. For their dear little child, a little Goat, 
is the most curiousest thing I ever saw in my 
world." 



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"Human nature is so constituted that 
whatever you write seriously is taken as a 
joke, and whatever you mean as a joke is 
taken seriously." 



The waiters set a leg of mutton before Alice. 

" You look a little shy ; let me introduce you 
to that leg of mutton," said the Red Queen. 
"Alice — Mutton; Mutton — Alice." The leg 
of mutton got up in the dish and made a little 
bow to Alice ; and Alice returned the bow, not 
knowing whether to be frightened or amused. 



"May I give you a slice? " she said, taking 
up the knife and fork, and looking from one 
Queen to the other. 

"Certainly not," the Red Queen said, very 
decidedly; "it isn't etiquette to cut anyone 
you've been introduced to." 



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"But I was thinking of a way 

To feed oneself on batter, 
And so go on from day to day 

Getting a little fatter. 
I shook him well from side to side, 

Until his face was blue; 
' Come tell me how you live ! ' I cried, 

'And what it is you do!* 



"He said, 'I hunt for haddocks' eyes 

Among the heather bright. 
And work them into waistcoat buttons 

In the silent night. 
And these I do not sell for gold 

Or coin of silvery shine, 
But for a copper halfpenny, 

And that will purchase nine.' " 



"She says she only said '//' " 

"But she said a great deal more than that," 

the White Queen moaned, wringing her hands. 

"Oh, ever so much more than that!" 

"So you did, you know," the Red Queen 

said to Alice. "Always speak the truth — 

think before you speak — and write it down 

afterward." 




"I'm sure I didn't mean ■" Alice was 

beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted 
her impatiently. 

"That's just what I complain of. You 
should have meant! What do you suppose 
is the use of a child without any meaning? 
Even a joke should have some meaning, — 
and a child's more important than a joke, I 
hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you 
tried with both hands." 



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"I don't deny things with my hands,'* Alice 
objected. 

"Nobody said you did," said the_ Red 
Queen. "I said you couldn't if you tried." 

"She's in that state of mind," said the 
White Queen, "that she wants to deny 
something — only she doesn't know what to 
deny." 

"A nasty, vicious temper," the Red Queen 
remarked. 



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They shuddered to think that the chase might 
fail, 

And the Beaver, excited at last, 
Went bounding along on the tip of its tail, 

For the daylight was nearly past. 




I\M 




"There is Thingumbob shouting! " the Bell- 
man said. 
"He is shouting like mad, only hark! 
He is waving his hands, he is wagging his 
head, 
He has certainly found a Snark!" 



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They gazed in delight, while the Butcher 
exclaimed, 
"He was always a desperate wag!" 
They beheld him — their B aker — their hero 
unnamed — 
On the top of a neighbouring crag. 



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"It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came 

to their ears, 

And seemed almost too good to be true. 

Then followed a torrent of laughter and 

cheers : 

Then the ominous words, "It's a Boo — " 




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Then silence. Some fancied they heard in 
the air 
A weary and wandering sigh 
That sounded like "jum!" but the others 
declare 
It was only a breeze that went by. 



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They hunted till darkness came on, but they 
found 
Not a button or feather or mark — 
By which they could tell that they stood on 
the ground 
Where the Baker had met with the Snark. 



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In the midst of the word he was tr3dng to say. 
In the midst of his laughter and glee, 

He had softly and suddenly vanished away — 
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. 




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